Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better… But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your...

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one’s own resources.

My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

I think it’s real.

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it’s about getting off.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

We can be seduced…by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to...

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer,...

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

Swinging back and forthdeeply stuck in tranced forbidden dreamWanting not to recognize fantasyis purely schemeElaborate facade of lustinto realityTransferring thoughts of illusionwill be fatality

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Only a cynic can create horror–for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock...

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: ‘There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

A fly with an elephant on its back would give the illusion of a flying elephant, if that fly were powered by my love for you.

I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make...

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of...

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it...

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we’d go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn’t seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

That’s how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be...

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.’ Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. ‘Bright songs and the magic of...

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards...